Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

From the beep of our metal detectors to the moment we unearth our finds, each episode brings you along on a treasure hunt ...

Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

A proposal in the state budget calls for Virginia Commonwealth University to relinquish control of a historic Black church in ...

The Battle of Shiloh was a complex two-day struggle in the early Spring of 1862 on the banks of the Tennessee River near ...

Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) notes that the theme sets out to highlight and celebrate the ...

Blackburn testified that he knew of families in his neighborhood that were kicked out of their churches in front of entire congregations because of their political affiliations.